COLUMBUS, Ohio 
Longtime Columbus nemesis Steve Sullivan scored the only goal in the shootout to lead the Nashville Predators past the Columbus Blue Jackets, 4-3 on Wednesday night.

Sullivan, who has 43 points in 44 career games against Columbus, notched the goal while going second in the shootout. Pekka Rinne, who had 28 saves in regulation, made stops on Jake Voracek, Rick Nash and Antoine Vermette - who had two goals - in the shootout.

Colin Wilson, Sergei Kostitsyn and Kevin Klein scored goals and Martin Erat had two assists for the Predators.

Kris Russell supplied a go-ahead goal for Columbus in the third period.

The Predators led 2-1 heading into the third, fell behind 3-2, and then tied it on Klein's goal with 8:22 left.

It was more of the same for Nashville, which always seems to find a way to beat Columbus - and usually with Sullivan and/or Erat playing a major role. The Predators are 41-13-4-1 against the Blue Jackets, going 24-4-2 in the series since 2006-07.

Erat has 40 points in his last 40 games against the Blue Jackets.

Columbus, down 2-1 heading into the third period, scored the next two goals. Russell found the net on a hard wrister from the high slot 2 minutes into the period.

After an Erat blast caught the corner junction and just missed going in for the Predators, the Blue Jackets took a 3-2 lead when Nash made a great individual effort and Vermette collected his second garbage goal. Nash went strong to the net, muscling his way between two defenders to get off a point-blank shot on Rinne. The goalie got a piece of it, but Vermette was there to punch in the go-ahead goal.

Nashville then knotted things again on what appeared to be an innocent shot. Klein collected the puck near the blue line, skated laterally for an instant and then fired a hard, low shot that goalie Steve Mason lost in the traffic in front of the net.

With Nashville up 1-0 in the second and each team a man down, Columbus pulled even when Umberger's cross-ice pass led to Jan Hejda's rush to the net. Rinne stopped Hejda's shot but the rebound dropped into the slot where Vermette had an almost empty net in front of him.

The assist extended Umberger's points streak to a franchise-record 10 games. Umberger has three goals and 10 assists during the streak.

Erat then supplied the go-ahead goal. Skating along the left boards, away from the goal line, he wristed a hard pass that was tipped into the net by Kostitsyn for his third of the year.

The game was barely a minute old when Umberger's pass through the slot went off defenseman Francis Bouillon's skate and slid off the post, barely staying out of the goal.

After the Blue Jackets had several prime scoring chances, it was the Predators who cashed in first.

Seconds after a power play ended, Wilson jammed in a shot for his fourth of the year. Cal O'Reilly did most of the work, saucering a seeing-eye pass from the back boards between defenseman Mike Commodore and the cage to Wilson in the slot.

NOTES: Columbus LW Ethan Moreau, who broke his hand on Oct. 20 against Anaheim, returned to the lineup after missing 17 games. ... The Predators set a franchise record by not allowing a power-play goal in their eighth game in a row. ... Nash's assist on Vermette's second goal was the 200th of his career.